dynamic popup windows...

Hi all,

I'm busy working on a portfolio site. It contains 100's of images, most with different sizes. I've designed a popup ( http://www.b3design.ch/fire+ice/popup.htm ). I would like that this window pops up when a thumbnail is clicked and shows the user the larger image. However, I would like a few things:

1.) The window should only be as big as the image+description, i.e: each thumbnail would have to have a custom popup size assigned to it.

2.) I would like the window to be named according to what image is showing...

Now the problem I have is the fact that I have so many images I don't want to/can't make a seperate popup document for each image. Is there a way I could have the same file which just dynamically updates itself in size, aswell as content when the user clicks a thumbnail?

I hope that made sense

Thanks for any help

This sounds like you want to record all this info into a database and use something like PHP or ASP to read the database and create the name/size on the fly.
For either, google 'asp database' or 'php mysql database'.

Thanks for the reply Galaphile. Only problem is that my server only supports php, no mysql or asp :/ Is'nt there a way I could 'call' the image size from the image and then insert it in the thumbnails code?

The code for the popup can be generated through PHP. Using the image functions in PHP you can grab the image dimensions. Just feed all the paths to the images in an array() and have a for loop go through the values in the array and output the correct code. As for setting the title for each window, I think you should name your files so that you can just run the image path through a quick PHP script to output the correct title. (ex. name the file "Giant_Monkeys.jpg", then do str_replace("_", "  ", $filename);).

Yeah...mo0s way should work...a database would just be easier to organize.

There is a script on www.hotscripts.com that will do this for you. All you have to do is put it in a directory and it does the rest. I can't remember what it was called, just look in the php section under image galleries or something.